Chapter 13

Blood

Three weeks passed by quickly. I never imagined so much to happen so fast. Work progressed with more photoshoots than I have ever done since I was growing in the market but at the same time the competition was rough. If Nico wasn't there to guide me each step of the way I would have definitely been trampled by the professionals and prodigies I had to compete with each day.

Once work was over I spent few of my afternoons working on art or either at Renji with the kittens. Their eyes had opened and they were so adorable. We also brought them to the vets together and I realized how much of parents we were like to them. The Veterinarian also explained to us that they were never nurtured since birth so they had officially acknowledge Renji and I as their mother since us both were there to feed and nurture them. We never got them neutered but we did have them get their necessary shots and had them professionally pampered. My artwork progressed well sometimes I found myself painting at Renji's just so he could watch me. He wasn't a painter himself but he did help me in mixing the paint and I taught him a few tricks and techniques of art. That was few of my afternoons, the 'most' were spent with Uta.

He seemed to have more or less grasped the 'No Penetration' rule I laid down. I never imagined a light relationship with him but since the past 3 weeks, it has been like that with very small intimate moments not intense but enough to keep my head in the clouds. The him I was getting to know was like unravelling a mysterious gift slowly and timidly. I asked him many questions but I was careful yet there were still things I never knew about him. We talked every day and saw each other nearly every other day. One day I won't forget was when I never got to see him for nearly three days straight, as soon as my class was over and I was packing up he was already at the door leaned up waiting on me. He had ways about him that made me want to be around him every day just making my soul want him more and more, and if wanting to be by his side wasn't enough, there was the strong desire to hold and lay with him which I had to fight, had to keep up my end of the 'No penetration' rule!

My relationship with Uta also got into my friendship with Itori where if we went out, I HAD to and by that I mean HAD TO report to her about where we went and what happened. I knew she was overprotective but she was very observant about what was taking place. We also worked on convincing the apartment owner to change the rule to have animals allowed. I knew Itori and Renji knew each other so when I introduced them to find out their relationship was as solid as the one she shared with Uta had me shocked. Then I realized he was the famous Ren chan she always spoke about. This also meant that Renji also knew Uta and the day they all came over to our apartment was quite…awkward. At first Renji and Uta spoke amongst themselves and then Itori joined and then I was left as the fourth wheel listening looking and just about feeling like the typical wallflower in society. Uta also wasn't very fond of me being around Renji sometimes and Renji always checked on me to ensure I was safe while I was with Uta.

My few 2 or 3 days to me over the period was spent in bed resting, in the kitchen cooking and baking or around the TV. I went to visit Tyler once. I had Terel reminding me of his birthday counting down the days till he turned seven. Of course after asking his mother for him on his birthday I got the chance to be where I was today. At the Neko Meko Grand Amusement Park.

"How long until we get to go on the rides Kai-Chan?" Terel said looking up at me he was as tall to a little above my knee. He was very short and young for a seven year old but still he was very adorable.

I picked him up holding him in my hand against my side as he smiled. "Well, first we wait for Aunty Itori to arrive." I said smiling at him as I turned to Uta who was here before I arrived.

"She just called said she is here with Renji." He said looking at me then around him. I'm not sure if he either felt out of place or he just never enjoyed being around people.

"Okay…I gave her the tickets so she doesn't have to join the line. Renji had work to do but he made the time so I don't mind waiting." I said looking at Uta as he really stood out. I really wanted us to treat this day for Terel but honestly I was just as excited as he was. This was my first time to the amusement park as well.

And I was getting to do this with Uta.

"Kaichiiiii!" Itori shouted coming towards me she was in a summer dress that hugged her upper body and wore low heels with black stocking. I felt super awkward in my jeans, cap and a sweater. Well at least Terel and I were both rocking the jeans, sweater and shirt look. Uta was in harem pants and a V neck grey tank top revealing his arm tattoos and some of his sun tattoo over his entire left pectoral region. He wore his tam came in slippers and wore the watch I gave him. I was in the necklace he got me as well.

"You look like a family." Itori teased as Uta was right next to me and I had Terel in my hand.

I blushed.

"Terel this is Aunty Itori and that's Uncle Renji, they're both my very close friends, are you going to be nice to them?"

"….yes." he mumbled a little embarrassed looking away.

"He's a bit shy but he is very kind and amazing. Aren't you Terel?"

He nodded and I smiled, I turned to Renji thanking him for coming since he usually has a lot of work to do. But Itori forced him to come and Uta came on my behalf to celebrate with Terel.

"Okay Terel, what's the first ride?" Itori asked him as I put him down. She took his hand and he was very friendly smiling as he pointed on the Carousel.

Itori walked with him as I took his other hand leaving the guys to themselves. When we went in a group out together or crashing at the apartment it was good to just let them be, by human nature they just merged and seemed fine with everything.

"So…" Itori started as I turned to her. We were in the waiting line waiting to go up on the ride in the next batch in the next three minutes.

"So what?"

"How has it been with Uta, I know he came over last night."

"Well he did, but I only did some art and he helped me make the snacks for today." I sad referring to the basket of food we brought that Uta was carrying.

"Oh, so you haven't found it weird that he doesn't eat a lot."

"Like you?" I asked looking at her before smiling. "He does eat though, when we go places he eats a little of this and that, last night he ate a sandwitch too. Maybe he's a light eater like you are."

"Oh." she mumbled seeming a little surprised. "Well, I'm still supervising both of you kaichi!"

"Of course, you must overlook U chan and Kaichii to ensure nothing goes wrong. I'm grateful to have a best friend like you."

She paused looking at me for a while before blushing, "I only do it because I care, I mean-" she pulled me into a hug so tight I felt like my rib cage would snap. "If anything happened to you I don't know what I would do!"

I smiled.

"Ne- are you my nee chan sister?" Terel asked looking up at Itori and I.

"yup, we are the bestestestest sisterssss ever, if you come between us- I would gobble you up"

Terel hugged my leg moving away from her.

"Itori! It's okay Terel she does mean that." I say picking him up and almost on cue the ride ends and we are up next.

Terel picks the prince charming huge horse that we both go on while Itori climbs onto the pony beside me.

The carousel ride was fun and after that there was the merry go round and then Terel wanted to take pictures with the public figure: Necromancer, then Itori and I had to sit with him at the kiddies live episode 432 unleased session. We felt the pressure as parents.

"Which one is next?!" I asked as he looked around before gasping.

"That one! The Neko teacup spinner!" He yelled as Itori face dropped.

"I'm going to Ren chan, make Uta go with you."

"Okayyy" I said walking to Uta he was standing there with the basket in his hand under a café table with Renji who Itori collapsed onto tired and worn out.

"My turn?" He asked resting the basket on the table as Uta looked at Terel who already had a liking to him.

"Uncle Uta we have to hurrrrrrrrry!" Terel said pulling on his pants excited and bouncing.

Uta picked him up with ease putting him on his shoulder as I blinked a couple times. This is probably the most adorable scene I have ever seen! I walk behind the two who are already blasting off a convo as we go towards the ride. The line is very short and it's boarding its new riders and we just step right up.

Its huge tea cups that we sit into and we turn the dial from 1 to 5 on how fast we want to spin around a circle for the next 5 minutes.

"Put it on 3!" Terel yells as even though he asks he is already turning the dial himself and the teacup begins moving. I look over at Uta who is fixing his tam and looks over at me.

"Are you having fun?"

"A lot"

He gives me a soft smile and I turn away feeling my heart flutter. I really could stay like this for the rest of my life.

"Kai chan look look look its going really fast!" Terel screams as I nod feeling myself starting to get just a little nauseous. I struggle to keep calm as I get even more dizzier than before the teacup was rotating while it was revolving around the circle and the huge circle that all the teacups were in was spinning and opposite direction itself. Once we get out my feet are weak and I'm wobbly.

After my fourth step I'm tilting over but before I could land on the concrete I feel a hand around my waist.

"Why didn't you say you weren't feeling well" Uta asks as we picks me up completely and I faintly here Terel worrying about me as his small hand grips my finger tightly.

"What's wrong?" Itori asks as soon as we reach to where they were. There were on the park lawn the blanket was out already.

"The ride made her a little dizzy" Uta mutters as he sits down pulling me to his chest.

"It's okay it's not bad" I managed to say but oh my god my face reddens as I feel my form against his and next to my ears I could hear the sound of his heartbeat but strongly I could smell the scent of his body- okay! Time to get up I can smell my nose bleed!

"No Kai chan you have to rest!" Terel says before me his eyes filled with water as his tiny hands squeezes my cheeks, the small 3 feet toddler had stopped me in my midst of getting up. "Do you want water? Want me to get you water, mommy always gives me water when I'm not feeling well." He adds looking at the basket going through it has he finds my famous water bottle. He tries to pull off the top. "nnng, don't worry! I just- have to-" he continues to struggle and I try to reach for him instead I feel Uta lean forward tapping the cover on my bottle as Terel looks up at him.

"Spin it" Uta instructs as Terel nods his head his little curls blowing in the wind.

"Okay…..oh- it's open!" he said shocked as he shuffles over to me on his knees, putting it at my lips.

I sit up taking it from him drinking on my own as I cover the cap looking at him.

"I feel better now."

He pouts looking at me hugging me, "I'm sorry, next time I will think about you Kai chan."

I smile. "It's okay, just seeing your smile makes me feel a bit better." I say to him as he smiles even wider.

"I know, I will get you a bean paste cake! It always makes me feel better!" He said getting up…he pauses and looks at Itori, "aumm, onee chan can you please…follow me" he mutters as Itori looks at him and he shivers a little. Why was Itori doing her best to give him a bad impression?

"Of course!" she yelled smiling as she got up and they both walked off talking to one another.

"Do you need me to go and get any medication?" Renji ask as he is sitting directly opposite from me.

"Aumm, no I feel better the water is actually working," I said taking another sip.

"Just to be safe…" he said getting up. I sighed deeply. I never wanted to worry anyone plus today was to be Terel's day and I never wanted to ruin it at all. Now I had everyone worrying about me.

"Everyone is worried." I muttered softly to myself.

"Because we care, is that a bad thing?" Uta asked from behind me and I turned to him pouting. I really wanted to take off his glasses.

"But…." I sighed again and leaned against his chest, "Are you having fun?"

He looks down at me and I look up at him. "A kid just flirted with you; I don't think it's fun to watch that."

I smiled, "Terel is special, plus….don't tell me you're being jealous?"

He never replied. My finger brushed over his lip and moved to his glasses cocking it upwards as those eyes looked down at me those red irises focusing on my face.

"It's like your eyes aren't human. I'm beginning to doubt this ink work."

"Maybe I'm not human." He says almost too soft for me to hear.

"Vampire, werewolf, don't tell me you're a zombie." I said smiling playing along with his farce "Doesn't change the fact of how much I admire your eyes." I add moving upwards to kiss his lips. It is a slow but deep kiss and as we continue it grows more intimate.

I pull away at the sound of some kids running nearby and blush lightly at the fact that we were basically seen by passers-by and others.

"Can I sleep with you tonight? I don't think I can make it home alone." Uta said looking down at me his glasses covering his eyes.

I paused. "I'll walk you home then."

"If you do I don't think I can allow you leave."

"You just want to sleep with me tonight don't you?"

He nodded. So adorable.

I sighed turning around from him. "Why all of a sudden Mr. Rule Breaker?" I teased relaxing into his body.

"Because I want to. I have waited quite a while."

"You have," I muttered turning away my cheeks getting red. It's been maybe a month and half now.

I feel him lean close to me as his lips brush my ears, "I can't promise I will hold back but I can say I will try." My eyes widened as I felt my stomach tighten. He was learning more sensitive spots on me and I'm sure if he played his cards right which I doubt he won't fail at, even I would give in. "Well…"

"Your right, we both won't be able to hold back after a while." I said softly knowing I wasn't able to stay satisfied with long kisses and mild touches.

"We're back!" Terel yells running to me with the snack as I smile taking it from him. "kai chan….you look better, was it Uncle Uta?"

"I think so, he has healing powers." I said smiling

"In my lips." Uta adds teasing as Itori covers Terel ears. Terel whispers something into Itori ears and she gasps.

"Really, I think so too."

"W-what do you think?" I ask nervously

"Sorry, you can't know." Itori teases as she looks around. "Where is renji?"

"He went to pick up some medication for me, for the dizziness."

"Oh, well let's all go to another attraction before he comes back, the haunted house!"

I nodded and Terel seemed a little excited. We clear up where we are and Itori made a call to alert Renji.

"Are you sure you can manage this Terel, it's not too late to back out."

"No, Uncle Uta said to be worthy of you I need to be a man and surpass him."

"Huh?"

I turned to Uta who shrugged.

"You told him that?!"

He didn't answer but I knew he did. I turned to Terel stooping to his level looking at him with a lot of care and compassion. How could I say this to him so that as a child he would understand? What he was talking about without realizing it was something between adults. "Terel, you already have me."

"But you love Uta." he said pouting.

"She loves me?" Uta says suddenly stooping next to me looking at Terel, he turned to me. "You do?"

I stood up picking up Terel as I walked ahead.

I. would . not. answer. that.

Itori was the most excited of us all beaming with happiness as it started. The stuff were scary. Itori was laughing, Uta was unfazed and Terel and I walked hand in hand holding tightly to each other.

"Eh, Kai chan I stepped in something gewy."

"Huh, lemme se-"

I looked down to see him stepping in blood. It's just fake blood. Kaisa its fake blood. Its fucking fake. Look away look away look away. It's just some liquid with red dye, some added medium to give it thickness and supplied with some other stuff to give it a realistic field. Its fake blood. Fake.

"Come darling let's walk fast."

"Yes we should and not look back" Terel replies moving quickly with me. Suddenly we come to a cross way and there is a grave in the middle before we can speak the cover swings off and a mommy steps out.

Terel gives an ear splitting scream and I punch the thing right in its face, Itori is dying of laughter and I just…..fuck…..my hand hurts.

"I will never ever return in a haunted house." I said as Terel grip around me tightens. "Say Terel, let's go play some games and win some prizes." I added trying to lighten up his mood. No way will I have the birthday boy saddened.

We go to the arcade section and we begin playing a bunch of games winning more tokens and prizes. I managed to win him a huge necromancer stuffed bear almost the size of him and lots of sweets.

"Okay Terel, last ride since its getting so dark, choose wisely." I said leaning against Uta as we sit in the chair. Terel is in Itori's lap as we pause from all the game and the cotton candy eating. Renji was also here but instead of sitting with us he was at the café section getting a cup of coffee for him and Itori.

"Uta do you want piece of my cotton candy?"

"Too sweet."

I pouted, "I was going to feed it to you with my mouth but-"

"I like sweet things." he suggested.

I smiled. I turned to him smiling, "ma-"

"The Ferris Wheel!" Terel shouts as renji arrives with the coffee.

"Renji, thanks for the pills if you never bought them I wouldn't have felt this energized."

"Your…welcome" he replied taking a sip of the coffee. I smiled as we all stood up getting ready to head to the Ferris Wheel.

"You know we look like a weird group. When we were at the arcade the workers were convinced Terel was the son of Uta and I and we were a weird couple. And they said you were a way too stylish girl to be with such an eerie looking guy." I said looking at Itori.

"Ren chan does draw attention to himself a lot." Uta said making a good point

"What, how so" he said immediately. We all stopped and looked at him, even Terel. "I'm not suspicious"

Itori laughed. "Ren chan you are more than 6 feet, you are a very muscular built man who wears a serious expression"

"True" I said smiling looking at him, "You always wear an overcoat, it makes you very mysterious, in the heat or in the rain your always cladded in a jacket or overcoat"

"You're very eerie, dark and dangerous" Uta teases

"Says the guy with piercings and tattoos"

"That's different, this is art"

"And I am?"

"A creep" Itori and Terel say in unison.

Renji had a dark cloud of oppression over him as we walked to the short line for the Ferris Wheel ride. I couldn't help but feel pity since when I just saw him I thought all these things. But then I realized he really is a kind and sweet person. He really is a very nice caring person with a really big heart. To be honest if I hadn't fallen for Uta I would have fallen for him. It pondered in my mind but wasn't he the typical guy Itori wanted. Kind and dangerous, dark but loving, intimidating but not talkative.

I froze. What have I done? I have ignored the 17th rule of best-friendship. I was focusing on my love life but I was not focusing on hers. I should have dealt with this- setting her and renji up. Then Uta and I and they both could double date and- WHY DID I NOT NOTICE!

It comes for us to go in the cart and Itori is holding my hand.

"Come on kaichi let's-"

"Sorry but-the heart wants what the heart wants"

I push her in the cart and then struggle, very hardly, to push renji in.

"Please go in renji" I say after strong efforts of pulling and pushing. It wasn't working. He wouldn't budge. Literally. No budging.

He nods and enters and I close the door shut. Itori is giving me on hell of a glare but I swallow it breathing on the glass writing.

Start your love!

I smile to myself as the wheel turns and an empty cart appears before me. Terel, Uta and I board it.

"What did you do?"

"I gave them a chance, I never realized but, wouldn't they make a cute couple?"

"….."

"well"

"I'm not seeing the visuals. They are such strong…individuals."

"Well they….we should just give it a try."

"Instead of that, I want a response, about your feelings..."

I watched Terel begin gazing out the window as he is in awe at the view of Tokyo once the wheel begins turning and we begin getting higher.

"About?"

"Do you love me?"

I blinked a couple times in disbelief, "you're asking me, if I'm in love with you?"

Meanwhile

"She is convinced we could be lovers"

"Whattttt!? That fucking woman"

"Isn't she your treasured best friend?"

"Yes but….once we get home...I'm gonna rape that bitch."

Renji chuckled into his hand as he looked out at the view. Itori looked at him sighed deeply. "Listen, I don't want you to feel lik-"

"Romance isn't your thing. Don't worry Itori, I know that."

She pouted looking at him; "great…" she frowned looking the opposite direction

Well this shall be an awkward ride.

I looked at Uta. "I'm not sure its love yet. I feel very strong about you but I don't know if I can say its love…as yet"

"It's okay"

I looked at him, "What about you?"

"I already know I'm falling for you." he said folding his leg openly over the other resting his elbow on the window pane of the cart and resting his chin on his wrist staring out the window. The Ferris Wheel comes to a stop and the cart makes a sudden swing. Uta immediately holds unto Terel and I fall completely over unto Uta. I look up as my face land on his…groin. My cheeks immediately get flushed.

"Oh I already said I'm falling for you, you don't have to do that, I mean you can but there is a child in our presence"

I immediately get so flustered and dart over to the other side of the cart blushing like crazy. I couldn't look at him

Fucking cart, how dare you. How dare you humiliate me like this! I'm so embarrassed at what happened that I couldn't even pay attention to what he had said the way I should have.

The Ferris Wheel is manually turned and all the people are taken out. As soon as we come out we realize something happened to the engine and they had to evacuate all personnel on the attraction. I sighed heavily.

"At least we got out safely"

"Sure did, seeing we almost got hurt." Uta mutters looking as the workers start clearing the area of people.

"The view was so gorgeous too! I was enjoying it." Itori exclaims sounding upset.

"I'm sorry Terel you were enjoying the view too…" I said looking down to not see Terel beside me or anywhere around me. "Terel?"

I begin scanning the area like crazy.

"Where is Terel?!" I turn to them as their faces fell into panic just as much as mine as they began looking around. He was in blue jeans red undershirt and a red jacket how could I even lose him he was right here holding unto my sweater!

I run off into the crowd and I could hear Itori calling me as I began searching looking from left to right and just following my instincts.

"Terel! Terel answer me!" I basically scream as everyone looks around at me and I panic looking around in horror and confusion.

I hear a small cry of my name coming from my left. "Terel!"

I run off to the sound and began panicking even worse. That wasn't a shout, it was like a scream. Where was he….where was he! WHERE WAS HE?!
I run till my feet are tired and I don't know where I'm going my legs are just leading me. I stop between two high tents to see someone on the ground in the center in the darkness

"Oh God, hello sorry to interrupt have you seen a small child, ashy brown hair, big blue eyes-" I try to catch my breath as I press my palms against my knees looking up, "he is in a red shirt and blue jeans did he come this way….." me voice trails off as my eyes narrow at this man. He has something…no someone….in his hand, and his shirt is covered in blood.

I stand frozen as the man looks at me and the clouds in front the moon moves and the lights shines down on us.

Someone….a child was in his hand limp and motionless.

The person was Terel…he was covered in blood.

My heart instantly sinks and I lose the feeling in my legs.

No…a ghoul, why was a ghoul here, what is- what is going on.

I look at Terel as tears roll down my cheeks. His fingers twitch as his half lidded eyes shift a little.

"k-kai chann"

My heart throbs. He's- he's

"G-Give him back!" I scream as I run towards this thing that doges me holding Terel like a piece of rag by his foot in its hand as it stands. I land on my hands as the grass beneath dirties my palm. I pick up a glass nearby smashing it on the ground as I stand to my feet holding it in an attacking position. I swallow deeply and charge once more this time trying to aim for his face and being careful not to get Terel hurt.

"kaisa!"

It was renji voice, I could see Itori and Uta's silhouette as well as the ghoul before me doesn't even budge to turn around.

"Give him back!" I yell running toward the ghoul with the glass as I slash towards it catching its hand as the man groans in pain. He drops Terel and before I can even defend punches me directly in my side. I tumble to the ground rising on my knee. I stumble as I try to get up again never had I in my life been hit like that. I cough up the rising bile in my stomach but as I vomit on the grass its blood that comes out instead.

I feel his hand around my neck pulling me as my feet isn't even on the ground. I look down at the man my body so weak I couldn't even move as he began choking me.

My fingers twitch and my hand reaches for his face as my finger dig into his eyes.

His….unhuman eyes.

His grip around my neck tightens and I bite on my lip as I dig my finger into his socket feeling his eyeball slip into my hand and I pull it out see the optic nerve rip as he screams in agony.

"BITCHHHHH"

His grip tightened around my neck and my eyes widened I couldn't breathe! I couldn't breathe! My fingers gripped onto his hand as my vision gets dimmer it's like my neck was going to snap. My throat was jammed shut.

I look down at this man as my eyes begin to close. Suddenly a hand pierces through his heart and the blood sprays onto my face as it gushes from the wound and i can feel the warm liquid running down my skin as his grip loosens immediately. I fall to the ground and like that I land beside Terel. I couldn't even look at him, I couldn't even move. I feel my body getting cold I couldn't breathe and suddenly, it's like the lights shut off in my world.

My body got colder everything got darker and I could feel my body slowly become numb as the tears welled up in my eyes as realization hit me to what was happening. suddenly everything went dark...

I'm dead.

Uta hand pulls out of the ghoul body as it falls to the ground. Itori rushes to kaisa's body as she picks it up looking at her.

"Don't touch her- don't-" renji orders immediately as he looks at Terel and then to Kaisa who wasn't moving or breathing.

"sh-she's not breathing, her neck is sprained and…." She freezes. "She….her heart isn't beating" she says as the tears are already streaming.

Uta looks at her almost like she is lying. He stoops looking at the dead body and for years of killing he knew what one looked like. He….this wasn't real. She was….she couldn't die right?

"Don't die so fucking easy, that's so human, that's not you." Itori mutters looking at her as tears streak down her face the last movement her body made before its final peril.

The ghoul grunted as it got up. Its regeneration wasn't sharp but it was still breathing. Itori turned to her kind and looked away back at her best friend, her most important person, her everything.

Her kakugan activated and she bit into her hands as the ripping sound of flesh could be heard.

"What are you doing?" Renji asked looking at her as she sucked the blood from her hand before going to kaisa's lips delivering her blood inside her body.

Itori has lost it. She was completely lost, she couldn't lose her best friend like this, kaisa couldn't die like this.

Renji watched as she bit her hand and continued giving the blood to the dead body over and over again.

"Itori, what are you doing?" he questioned again.

Itori face was soaked in blood and tears when she looked up at him. "Can't you see, I'm trying to save her! If my blood-maybe- she can regenerate"

Renji watched her as he realized Itori wasn't capable of grasping the situation before her.

"Itori she is dea-"

"Don't say it!" she barked as she bit into her hand tearing more flesh so the blood could pour. Uta looked at renji. He never knew what to say. He worst couldn't even grasp what was going on, when he reached it was too late. Kaisa was being strangled she was struggling to breathe when he killed the ghoul under three seconds and she fell to the ground, she was dead.

"He strangled her breaking her trachea which probably choked her by the tightened muscle and bone, it was stifling. She lost the air needed to breath and-"

"SHUT UP!" Itori shouted as she pressed her head against her chest. "If she is dead there is 7 minutes, 7 minutes to try to save the body from this state. I just need enough blood to, to help her, and then she will get up and-"

"She is already dead stop." Renji said looking at Itori who froze unable to process what he said. he had risen his bvoice at her and he didn't like it. it hurt as much for him to say it so many times. But he knew it hurt for her as well to grasp reality, worse for uta who hasn't said a word up to now.

"N-no if we just,"

"She died saving this child. We should rush him to the hospital as fast as we can. We cant...we can't let her death go in vain." he said regretfully looking away.

Itori looked at Terel on the ground breathing horribly.

"He suffered a concussion, he is in a paralyzed state but he is alive just rush him to the hospital and"

"o…okay" she said resting the corpse slowly and carefully onto the ground.

Uta looked at her. "I will bring him Itori you can't."

"No….i- it's my fault, I will bring him." She murmured picking up the child before running with him out the dark area and into the light.

Uta turned back to the body of his girlfriend.

He inhaled sharply and couldn't even exhale as he leaned over touching her skin.

"I couldn't even feel, as the warmth left your body" he murmured as he picked her up pulling her into his hand his fingers gently caressed her face.

"The ghoul….kill him….renji." He said hearing the thing gurgle as it slowly regenerated trying to survive.

Uta looked at her. Stared longingly into her lifeless eyes. He couldn't have anyone around him right now, could let anyone see him like this. The rain suddenly pelted down as Renji stood up walking to the ghoul. You could hear the sudden snap.

"Do it slowly." Uta murmured, "Let him live through every pain like the seconds he survived since the day he was born" he added as his voice grew dark. The once violent and untamed darkness in him he learned to hid suddenly creeping out of its shell growing and curling into a formidable shape as his anger grew unbearably at such a fragile and delicate loss.

The rain soaked his face and her body which only got even more colder. The water mixed in with the tears as both streaked down his face followed by the faint sound of the ghoul's horrid scream of agony.

He bit down hard on his tongue in regret as the muscle tore and the blood began pooling inside his mouth. He leaned over and kissed her.

Even if it meant emptying his entire body. He would never want to live in a world where she no longer existed. Not after he told her he loved her. Not after he finally felt that probably deep inside he could finally love someone other than himself.

Renji knelt beside him looking at the body in his hand.

"I'll bring her home, I'll…keep her, on ice for some time, I don't think Itori should see her body for a while, she would need you the most, its best i-"

Uta coughed as he moved away from her mouth some of the blood running door her chin. Why wasn't she swallowing it why did he have to try so hard to let it go down? Was it because she was already dead?

Why wasn't she swallowing it?

He tried again over and over until he lost count just filling her body with blood, maybe, it would do something.

"Maybe if we bring her to the hospital-"

"After you filled her system with ghoul blood."

Uta looked at him.

"They would turn her body into a test subject. Why was ghoul blood inside her, was she eating ghouls?"

"but…."

"Itori said her heart stopped, she hasn't moved an inch, just, we need to leave before anyone comes." Renji took the body up leaving Uta in the rain.

He felt it too, he felt the urge to cry as well but he has to be strong for both Itori and Uta. She was special to him as well.

Earlier he was getting her pills for dizziness and now he was carrying her limp body under the pouring rain in the darkness of the park. she was someone he admired, someone he treasured, a friend he grew to have. She was someone who was special to him as well...someone he grew to love behind the curtains.

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